[gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Hello,

I used to be able to use my mic with Alsa, about 2 or 3 years ago, I 
hadn't tried since, but the otherday I did and it didn't work. I have 
reinstalled everything from scratch since (to go from unstable to 
stable). I followed the guides/howtos on the Gentoo site, but no luck, 
the mic won't work correctly. I also noticed that I used to have more 
inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, 
PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance 
Front Mic, that's the only one I explicitly remember. My front mic 
doesn't work at all (this is a laptop, details later), and if I plug a 
mic in the input, I can hear myself in the speakers, but none of the 
apps can, I tried to use gnome's recorder program, wengophone, ekiga, 
etc, no sound.  Could anyone please help me? Here are the details :

Lenove/IBM Thinkpad T60p, gentoo-sources-2.6.22, alsa kernel module (I 
tried to use the module in portage, but it wouldn't compile), 
alsa-utils-1.0.14_rc2-r3.

I used this howto : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix

I didn't install media-libs/alsa-oss, since the howto in the gentoo docs 
doesn't say to, I think it's used if I install the driver in portage and 
not the kernel module (correct me if I'm wrong), the reast is the same.

lspci output : 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 
Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

I have this in my make.conf :

    ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
    ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty 
extplug file hooks
                                                iec958 ioplug ladspa 
lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug
                                                rate route share shm 
softvol"

The sound works fine, I can listen to music and everything.

any ideas? Thanks!
Gabriel

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